TikTok announced on Tuesday that it started storing data from some European users at its data center in Ireland amid privacy and security concerns surrounding the Chinese company. "Our first data center in Dublin, Ireland, is now operational and migration of European user data to the center has begun. The other two data centers in Norway and Ireland are under construction," TikTok's Vice-President of Public Policy Europe Theo Bertram said.
The change will concern users from the European Economic Area (EEA), as well as the United Kingdom and Switzerland. TikTok said cybersecurity company NCC Group will oversee its data security measures and also "serve as a managed security services provider for our security gateways, performing real-time monitoring to identify and respond to any suspicious or anomalous access attempts and provide assurance on the integrity of the enhanced security controls operations."